The British Oak Public House Including Garden Loggia To North East

The British Oak Public House, including a garden loggia, was built between 1923 and 1924 by James and Lister Lea for Mitchells and Butlers brewery. This large public house is designed in the 17th century Domestic Revival style and features red brick in Flemish bond with decorative diaperwork, brick mullion-transom windows, and tile arches. The roof is covered with clay plain tiles and has coped gable ends, along with brick axial and gable-end stacks.

The exterior is two storeys high with a cellar and has an asymmetrical west front with a layout of 1:2:1:1. It includes canted two-storey end bays with brick diaper patterns on the parapets, a narrow bay to the right of centre with a stepped gable, and brick quoins. The recessed segmental arched doorway has a panel above featuring an Oak Tree in relief, with a two-light window above it. The ground floor has brick mullion windows with transoms and a moulded brick stringcourse at the window cill level. There is a doorway to the left of centre with an overlight, a further recessed bay on the right, and a single-storey porch on the left end. At the rear, there is a gabled wing on the left and a single-storey flat-roofed area on the right with large round-arch windows and a diaperwork frieze above.

The interior is intact and complete, featuring a full suite of rooms including lounge and public bars, smoking rooms, a function room, and an outdoor area. The furnishings include original bars and bar-backs, seating, panelling, chimneypieces, a lock-up bar in the function room, panelled doors with brass nameplates, some restrained plasterwork, and tiled outdoor walls. The garden loggia, built at the same time, is made of red brick with a clay tile hipped roof and has a quadrant shape with a six-bay loggia supported by timber posts and short curved braces. At either end, there are square single-storey pavilions with pyramidal roofs and tile quoins. Inside the loggia, along the back wall, are two benches with shaped ends.